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From: "Krzysztof Duleba" <krzysan AT skrzynka DOT pl>
Subject:  Re: bash -c error
Date:  Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:14:52 +0100
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Eric Blake

> Thanks for the backtrace.  I'll see about rolling a bash 3.0-15 in the
> near future.  In the meantime, avoid invalid uses of time (POSIX states
> that time takes a mandatory argument of the utility name to run; the 
> bash
> extension of letting time take no arguments was the culprit here).

This was just a minimal test case.

$ bash -c time ls
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

However,

$ bash -c 'time ls'
bin       cygwin.bat  etc   lib   sbin  usr
cygdrive  cygwin.ico  home  proc  tmp   var

real    0m0.025s
user    0m0.046s
sys     0m0.000s

Krzysztof Duleba 




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